Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-03-11

Rouge and Vicksburg railroad land
grant.
To reduce the fees on domestic
money orders for sums less than IS.
To make an allowance for clerk
hire to postmasters of the first-class
for clerical labors in the money order
business.
To extend the immediate delivery
system.
To prohibit the passage of local spe-
cial laws in Territories.
To create the judicial district of
southern California.
Making appropriations for additional
barracks at southern, northwestern
and western branches of the national
soldiers homes.
To provide for the closing up of the
business of the court of Alabama
claims.
To establish additional life-saving
stations.
For construction of additional light
houses.
Extending the free delivery system
to towns of 10000 inhabitants.
For the sale of the Cherokee reserva-
ton in Arkansas.
To amend an act for the muster and
pay of certain officers, and to see that
any person, duly commissioned, wheth-
er the commission was received or not,
shall be considered to have been COM
missioned from the date named in the
claims which grew out of General
Johnston's Utah expedition.
To authorize the delivery to their
owners of valuable boxes deposited in
the Treasury by the Secretary of War.
For issue of postal notes in sums of
less than IS.
To validate the general laws of Da-
kOta.
To provide a school of instruction
for cavalry and artillery.
To provide for the inspection of to-
bacco, cigars and snuff.
To repeal section 3l51 OF the r. S.
To effect Encouragement OF grades
of Office in the adjutant-gcneral's de-
partment.
To provide for filling the office of
United States Treasureri in the absence
of the Treasurer and the Assistant
Treasurer.
To allow merchandise liable to spe-
cial rates of duty to be transported in
bond, although the merchandise may
not appear by the invoice to be con-
signed to the port described.
TO allow underwriters to be rccog-
nized as cOnsignees Of merchandise on
abandoned vessels.
To restrict ownership of lands in
Territories to American citizens.
To prohibit government employees
from hiring or contracting out the
labor of United States prisoners.
To amend the dutiablc goods act ESQ
as to allow merchandise to be trans
ported in bond on passenger trains in
trunks and in parccls.)
To amend an act prohibiting the i'm
portation and emigration of foreigners
| under labor contracts.
Providing for the location of a
branch soldiers home west of the
Rocky Mountains.
For the relief of the Jeanette suf-
fercrs.
To regulate jurisdiction of U. S. cir
cult courts.
For the adjustment of land grants
and forfeiture of unearned lands.
To add number of cities to the list
of national bank reserve cities and to
allow part of the reserve to be kept in
cities other than New York.
For relief of settlers on public lands
in Kansas and Nebraska.
For erection of public buildings at
Los Angeles, Cal, Springfield, NO., Ell
Paso, Tex, Santa Fe, N. NJ, and JEFF
ferson, Tex.
For the purchase of site for feder-
al buildings at San Francisco, Cal.
Forty house joint resolutions be-
came laws, the principal ones being as
follows: Directing the commissioner
of labor to make an investigation as
to convict labor.
To authorize the President to pro-
tect American fishing and trading YES
sells and American fishermen in Cana
dian waters.
Authorizing investigation of books
and methods of Pacific railways.
SENATE BILLS WHICH BECAME LAWS.
OF the total number of bills which
passed the Senate 320 became laws, in
cluding lis of public and 2O5 of a
strictly private nature.
The more important Senate bills
which became laws are:
Presidential succession bill, devolv-
ing the heirship to the presidency
upon members of the cabinet in the
event of a vacancy in the office of
president and vice-president.
To regulate interstate commerce.
Recoinage of the trade dollar.
Electoral count bill.
Allotment of lands in severalty to
Indians and extending the protection
of laws to Indians On various reserva-
tions.
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